Presenter: Dale Dodds & Pat Hoberg
School District: Warwick School District
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Roles of librarian in your CFF school:

  • information specialist
  • resource specialist
  • partner with the CFF coach
  • collaborator
  • project co-creator
  • co-teacher
  • cheerleader
  • guide through the ethical and legal maze

Information Literacy

  • where are we going to get the information?
    • Web sites - establish expectations
      • Evaluate - Evaluate - Evaluate
    • Invisible Web
      • Examples: books still under copyright / full text of magazine and newspapers / literary criticisms & critiques
  • how are we going to use the information?
  • how good is the information?

"Pathfinder" - A bulleted list of resources / references, generated by the librarians or media specialists, that students are expected to use when completing an assignment. Ask you librarian or media specialist for information.


Resources:


Online Warwick High School Library Catalog
http://www.warwick.k12.pa.us/school_secondary.php?schoolid=0006&deptid=14&name=Library

Online Warwick Catalog and Subscription Databases
http://www.warwick.k12.pa.us/module.php?deptid=14&schoolid=0006&mid=226

eBooks - Warwick is purchasing books that can also be accessed online

Power Library from school / home

World Book Online
http://www.worldbookonline.com/

Grolier Passport from home

sirs Researcher
http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-portal-res?id=SPL2995-0-2358

Careers Internet Database

Choices

Culturegrams
http://www.culturegrams.com/

Blooms Literary Criticism
http://www.warnerbooks.com.au/information/Blooms%20Literary%20Criticism%20Collection